Finished the series last night and I found it to be slightly less than mediocre. An over all lack of creativity kills everything from casting to the sound track. It's a great example of how not to tell an action story.

There's no excuse for how bad the martial arts are on this show. The wrong techniques are used at the wrong times. Even something as simple as an arm bar got applied incorrectly multiple times by multiple characters.

IRON FIST is one of the blandest, most indifferent shows I've ever watched. I'm six hours -- or maybe 33 hours, it's hard to tell -- into the series and literally not one single semi-interesting thing has occurred. It's like someone decided to duplicate the genial blandness of network TV and took it too far; even the curious decision of rarely showing Iron Fist in action reminds me of shows like the 70s HULK. There's no way I'm proceeding; I'll either skip to the last episode or just give up.

Compare Iron Fist to the recent FX series Taboo starring Tom Hardy. It has a similar premise ( hero returns to the big city after many years in exotic lands, challenges corporate baddies for his inheritance). But it succeeds in everything that Iron Fist fails. There's just not one minute of Taboo that isn't suspenseful or menacing, whether it be knife fights in the alleys of London or boardroom meetings in the East India Company.

These days excellent shows are popping up all the time. Marvel really can't put out half-baked stuff like Iron Fist and hope for some kind of success.

Some of the fights scenes were weak. I thought some were pretty good, though.

I didn't hate Finn Jones in the role. Jessica Henwick was quite good as Colleen Wing.

The Iron Fist effect was well done.

Did it have slow patches? Yes. But all the Marvel Netflix shows do. I stopped watching JESSICA JONES about 4 episodes due primarily to this. Also...I have no "history" with that character. Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist, I gave more leeway.

A magical mountain of monks that appears on "our" plane every few years? A glowing, invincible fist?

I think the outlandish ship has sailed at least far enough out that an Asian Iron Fist would fail to bring it back to port.

The show has problems, but casting a blonde, blue-eyed European to play Danny is something they got right.

I think he is supposed to seem childish, at times. He was ripped from our culture at 10 years old and grew up among very singular-minded people. I don't think it's too off base to believe there might be some arrested social development occurring.

Given all the casting controversy, it's a bit cringey that Netflix Marvel walked through all the doors that people were worried they walk through, from making Danny specifically a Chosen One outsider of prophecy who beat out all the K'un-Lun natives to attain the mantle of Iron Fist to having Danny border on Weeaboo-ness in his scenes with Colleen. Even making Colleen a love interest rather than a platonic partner was a bit tone deaf.

They should've cast Lewis Tan as Davos, and started the first few episodes in K'un-Lun. The story with the Meechums could have filled the middle of the series, with Davos showing up at the end as Steel Serpent. The missed opportunities are what haunts this show. Sigh.

We just started watching it and as a huge fan of the character, I only have one question? Are we ever going to see Iron Fist in this thing?

Maybe this is based on a newer series I haven't read, but wow did they absolutely F the origin and the characters. I understand their need to make changes ( though I don't agree they're needed ), but the only thing that's the same is the names of the characters.

The fight scene against Lewis Tan also highlighted the lack of grasp the writers had for this show. How does Danny not recognize Drunk Style Kung Fu? Making him ignorant of it undermines the character.

Have to agree - the show isn't good. The fight scenes are boring, poorly staged and over-edited. The acting is pretty bad - especially the guy who plays Danny, who is overly intense and always upset. The girls are the only redeeming thing so far but even they have little to work with. I never really wanted to see a Defenders series, not this Defenders series. I'd prefer more Daredevil, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, with a little crossing over. Oh well, still beats DC movies.